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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The lower house of the parliament of Tajikistan on August 24 passed a new law on mass amnesty proposed by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon last week in honor of the 25th anniversary of the country’s independence, Avesta news agency reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Bishkek has sentenced a former Kyrgyz prime minister's son, Altynbek Muraliev, to 12 years in prison on espionage charges, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As there are signs in Russia of renewed surge in radical nationalism and xenophobia towards labor migrants from Central Asian countries, here below we are republishing an article originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The European Union has launched a new project to enhance criminal justice in Kazakhstan, the EU Delegation to Kazakhstan said. Continue reading
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — In the southwest of Kyrgyzstan, with its important Uzbek minority and arguable borders there is a potential cause for confrontation with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. At stake are precious irrigation water and mineral resources. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — Lebanon, former Yugoslavia, Africa and Latin America where large-scale civil armed conflicts took place generate mobs and mobsters. While in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan such conflicts have been avoided, Tajikistan’s leading crime chiefs seem to have come very close indeed to sharing power with legitimate authorities while Uzbekistan seems to be balancing on the edge. Both post-Soviet republics appear to be in need of a national consolidation of public support for legitimacy, rather than letting criminal gangs control the economy first and possibly the state itself later. Continue reading
